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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: Setting UUCP's time zone
Message-ID: <356@demott.COM>
Date: 3 Jul 90 19:31:07 GMT
References: <40227@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com>
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Organization: DeMott Electronics Co., Van Nuys CA
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In article <40227@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com> heiby@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) writes:
>I assume you are using System V/68 Release 3 version 5.1.  The uucp
>timestamp problem is built in to System V Release 3.  There is no simple
>way to change it.  You might be able to do something clever like moving
>your uucico to uucico.real and creating a new uucico which is a shell
>script that does nothing but set the time zone and invoke uucico.real
>with all of its arguments.  I haven't tried this, but can't think of
>any reason it shouldn't work.  Let us all know how it goes!

    I got the suggestion from Dean Hall, (dean@pdx.csd.mot.com).

in /etc/passwd:

nuucp:(passwd):10:10:srhqla UUCP:/usr/spool/uucppublic:/usr/lib/uucp/uushell


in /usr/lib/uucp/uushell:

exec env 'TZ=PST8PDT' /usr/lib/uucp/uucico

 1 -rwxrwxr-x   1 root     sys           43 Jun 29 12:55 /usr/lib/uucp/uushell*

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